Voice and Environmental Communication [electronic resource] /
Depoe, Stephen.author.
Peeples, J.editor.
Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. This foundational book introduces the relationship between these two fundamental aspects of human existence and extends our knowledge of the role of voice in the study of environmental communication.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Voice and the Environment-Critical Perspectives; Section I: Voice and Environmental Advocacy; 1 Corporate Ventriloquism: Corporate Advocacy, the Coal Industry, and the Appropriation of Voice; 2 Defending the Fort: Michael Crichton, Pulp Fiction, and Green Conspiracy; 3 Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment; 4 Sustainable Advocacy: Voice for and before an Intergenerational Audience; 5 Response Essay: The (Im)possibility of Voice in Environmental Advocacy; Section II: Voice and Consumption
6 Voices of Organic Consumption: Understanding Organic Consumption as Political Action7 Vote with Your Fork: The Performance of Environmental Voice at the Farmers' Market; 8 Response Essay: Thinking through Issues of Voice and Consumption; Section III: Listening to Nonhuman Voices; 9 The Language That All Things Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of Nature; 10 The Ethics of Listening in the Wilderness Writings of Sigurd F. Olson; 11 Listening to the Natural World: Ecopsychology of Listening from a Hawai'ian Spiritual Perspective
12 Response Essay: Environmental Voices Including Dialogue with Nature, within and beyond Language13 Coda: Food, Future, Zombies; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. This foundational book introduces the relationship between these two fundamental aspects of human existence and extends our knowledge of the role of voice in the study of environmental communication.
Communication.
Environmental sociology.
Environment.
Media and Communication.
Environmental Sociology.
Media Studies.
Environment, general.